Meta creates AI Research SuperCluster, to be world’s fastest supercomputer

Meta, formerly Facebook, has announced that it has created what it claims to be among the world’s fastest artificial intelligence supercomputers. The AI Research SuperCluster (RSC), as Meta calls it, is aimed to help create the experiences that will power the metaverse. According to Meta, the supercomputer will be the world’s fastest once it is complete. Meta did not reveal the location of this supercomputer, or how much it will cost.

Once RSC is complete, it will help Meta’s AI researchers build new and better AI models that can learn from trillions of examples, work across hundreds of different languages, develop new augmented reality tools, and more. Meta says that the work done with RSC will pave the way toward building technologies for the next major computing platform, the metaverse, where AI-driven applications and products will play an important role.

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AI supercomputers are built by combining multiple GPUs into compute nodes, which are then connected by a high-performance network fabric to allow fast communication between those GPUs.

Development on RSC is ongoing. Once phase two of the project is complete, Meta estimates it will be the fastest AI supercomputer in the world, performing at nearly 5 exaflops of mixed precision compute. Meta says that RSC will help them create the foundational technologies that will power the metaverse, and advance the broader AI community as well.